Reynaldo Galindo Pohl (

Sonsonate Sonsonate () is a city and district of El Salvador, of which it is also its municipal seat. It has an estimated population of 71,980 inhabitants for the year 2020. Sonsonate is the second most important city in western El Salvador. The town was ...

, October 21, 1918 –

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, January 4, 2012) was a

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lawyer and diplomat. He actively participated in the military movement which led to overthrew of

Salvador Castaneda Castro Salvador Castaneda Castro (6 August 1888 – 5 March 1965) was President of El Salvador from 1 March 1945 to 14 December 1948. He had previously served as Interior Minister under President Maximiliano Hernández Martínez. He was elected unoppos ...

in 1948. Galindo Pohl was a member of

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and presided over the Constituent Assembly that drafted the Constitution of 1950. He was the minister of education in the first half of 1950s and after that begun working for

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in 1960s. He was special rapporteur of the Commission of Human Rights on Iran from 1986 to 1995 — after Andres Aguilar (1984-1986) and before Maurice Copithorne (1995-2002).

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* * 1918 births 2012 deaths Members of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador Presidents of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador United Nations special rapporteurs Government ministers of El Salvador 20th-century Salvadoran lawyers Salvadoran officials of the United Nations 20th-century Salvadoran politicians 20th-century diplomats People from Sonsonate Department {{ElSalvador-politician-stub